Partners for the Tutor/Mentor Conferences
The conference is part of a
Collaboration Strategy, where each
partner does as much as he/she can to help tutor/mentor programs grow
in many places.
The Tutor/Mentor Connection (T/MC) depends on the volunteer actions of many individuals and organization to organize the May and November Conferences each year. All of our speakers are volunteers who donate their time. Many come from other cities and pay for their own travel and lodging expenses. Without this help, we could not keep the fees for the conference so low or offer as many scholarships as we do. In this way, all of our speakers are partners in this effort. We thank you all.
2009 Conference Planning Team
Several people are already active in sharing ideas and planning the November 2009 Conference.
* Kristen Cragwell and Shar Jaidev, Northwestern University Community
Development Corps
* Alex Cornwell, Associate Director, Tutoring and Summer Day, Chicago Lights
* Katherine Moone, Program Director, East Village Youth Program
* Bart Phillips, President of the Board, Community Building Tutors
* Alexandria Taylor, Associated Colleges of Illinois
* Karen Royster James of Columbia College of
Chicago
* El Da'Sheon Nix, Bradley Troast and Toni Pullen of Cabrini Connections
* Nicole White and Dan Bassill, Tutor/Mentor
Connection.
We seek partners who view the T/MC conference as part of their own
commitment to make more effective volunteer-based tutoring and/or
mentoring programs available to economically disadvantaged kids living
in neighborhoods with high violence, high poverty, and many poorly
performing schools. Partners can come from business,
universities, local tutor/mentor programs, schools, foundations, and
any sector of society. They can come from beyond Chicago. They even come from other countries. Introduce yourself
on-line and join the 2009 Conference Planning Team.
If you'd like to learn more about getting involved,
please contact us.
November 2009 Conference Host
Norris University Center, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
Thanks to our partners, Northwestern University Community Development Corps (NCDC),
the Tutor/Mentor Connection is appreciative of the opportunity to be able to
host this November's Tutor/Mentor Leadership and Networking Conference at Norris
University Center on the Northwestern University Evanston Campus. We hope that
having the conference at a central location at one of the nation's top
universities will afford a greater interaction between tutoring and mentoring
not-for-profits and students and professors at Northwestern.
Speakers and workshop presenters
All of the people who make time to do presentations are volunteers, who
partner with the Tutor/Mentor Connection to make this conference
possible. See the complete list of speakers
(May 2009 still posted).
Would you like to bring your network and knowledge to this conference? Contact us now!
